Thursday, August 30, 2012

Fish, Jewish Democrats, and a Bottle of Pantene

I saw a Pantene shampoo add on TV. Although the commercial promised no
more split ends, the best thing about buying a bottle of Pantene was that you
were getting 2 for 1. You were
also getting a big bottle of altruism.

The bottle of Pantene had a pink ribbon on
it.You know what that means.If you are caring, compassionate, and
socially conscious, then you will buy it.Because the truly compassionate people are those who buy products that support breast cancer research.

The commercial ended by reminding the
dumb-downed audience that they aren’t just buying Pantene because they don’t
want to have split ends anymore.They are buying it because, “Buying a bottle of Pantene means that you
care.”

Please tell me that I wasn’t the only
one screaming in my head that one of the reasons there is even a need for
cancer research treatment in this country is because of products like Pantene that
are filled with unpronounceable ingredients that are carcinogens.

The Pantene commercial reminded me of Jews who
are going to vote for Obama.They’ve
laid aside all modes of critical thinking while they reach for the party that
reminds you that, "If you vote for us, that means that you care."

A comment on Facebook today by a Jew said, “No committed observant Jew could vote for
Romney/Ryan. Mr. Romney and Ryan are proposing to introduce levels of
inequality, poverty, intolerance, discrimination, and legalized predation
unseen since before the Civil War. Their policies stand in direct opposition to
the moral teachings of Judaism and the ethical conduct that is required of
Jews.”

Nevermind
that, ahem, the KKK was started by democrats, that Abraham Lincoln was a
republican, as well as Martin Luther King.Nevermind that it was a democratic president who turned away
the SS St. Louis, a ship full of Jews trying to escape Hitler.Nevermind that Clinton perhaps was the
biggest womanizing president in history.But hey, he stood for women’s rights, so who cares if he was getting on
top of women as often as possible.Is that ethical conduct required by Judaism? Nevermind that Obama supports governments, hell he's practically in bed with them, who prohibit women from driving, from holding a job, and from going in public without being covered from head to toe. Ask one of those women about the purported republican's "war on women" and she'd probably laugh her burqa covered ass off.And nevermind that Obama suggested that Israel return to its
indefensible 1967 borders.I guess
Jews in America forget about that little snippet of moral teaching in Judaism,
the little part about the Land of Israel belonging to the Jews.Guess Jerusalem seems a lifetime away
from the breezy retirement villages in Florida or the Jewish delis in New
York.

One of my
biggest pet peeves is when people replace critical thinking with rhetoric.Don’t get me wrong.The man who posted that on Facebook,
along with all the other anti-Romney posts I’ve seen by Jews, has every right to
his opinion and to vote for Obama.But I hate the fact that he is basing his opinion on rhetoric that the
media and democrat party spoon-feeds to the masses.

Critical thinking is
defined as the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully
conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating
information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience,
reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In other words, you actually think before
believing something.

Jews have been so
loyal to the democratic party for so long, that they’ve forgotten to think
about or even care that the party has actually evolved away from the tenants of
Judaism.

I love the fact that
much of Judaism is a discipline of pragmatism.The ancient teachings of Judaism house the secrets of the
operations of the universe.But Jews
are prone to say, “So what?” to that kind of knowledge if the application of
that knowledge fails to make one a better person.Judaism is more about transformation than education.Long story short, I love that Judaism
is practical.It teaches one to
act like he is the only gardener in this world, the only one that can fix
things in a world that needs fixing.It is Judaism’s way of saying, “Get off your butt, and do your part
because no one else can do it for you.”Which leads me to the irony of Jews being so loyal to the democratic
party.The democrats laud
themselves, and Jews have swallowed it hook, line, and sinker, as being the
compassionate party.The party who
cares for all and who will take care of all (nevermind that they will do this
with money that doesn’t exist, but hey who cares about the details when you’re
being so nice.)Which reminds me,
I’d like to buy you a new house, and new car, and pay for your education, as
soon as I go find someone richer than me to gladly give me his money so I can
be nice and buy all that for you.Sound like a plan?

But according to
Judaism, guess what the highest form of charity is?Oh, handouts make the list.It’s a nice and honorable act to give to someone less
fortunate than you.But that’s not
the highest form of charity.The
highest form of charity is to either give someone a job or to help him start
his own business.Gee, which party
does that sound like?

Creating a sense of
entitlement might sound nice, might look nice, but it is not nice.Because creating a sense of entitlement
is like buying a bottle of Panteen with a pink ribbon on it.You think you’re changing the world,
but you’re really not doing squat.

I had a Jewish friend
who is also a Torah teacher tell me something one time that has stuck with
me.He said, “The most righteous
person isn’t always the nicest person.”Touche.’

Do you remember the
brewhaha in the media a few months ago when then presidential candidate hopeful
Newt Gingrich told people camped out at Occupy Wall Street sites day and night
to do something positive for themselves and, “Go get a job!” According to the knee-jerk media what
he said was reprehensible. So
maybe according to Judaism he should have said, “Let me help you go get a job.” But what he said and what republican
capitalists believe is closer to Torah than the “compassionate”
let-me-help-you-depend-on-the-government perpetual mode of the democrat
party. It’s the old adage of
teaching a man to fish or giving him a fish. It’s time for Jews to awaken out of their loyalist stupor
and realize that the fish that’s been handed out by the democrats for decades
stinks. Just like the duplicitous
bottle of Pantene shampoo that has a pink ribbon on it. It’s full of fragrant carcinogens. And it stinks.